What happens when you give a skilled photographer Google Glass? Richard Koci Hernandez (also know as @koci) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based photojournalist whose iPhone street photography has earned him more than 167,000 followers on Instagram. Having aquired Google Glass last week, Hernandez launched a new Instagram account just to share his Google Glass photos.

Hernandez's use of Google Glass' 5-megapixel wearable camera is exciting. While the device has found its way into the hands of celebrities and politicians alike, it is great to see a professional photojournalist and experienced mobile photographer using the technology.

Koci's Instagram caption for this shot reads: "First day on the streets with Google Glass. #throughglass blown away by the sharpness and clarity for only 5MP. The lens is a little too wide for my street style, but I understand why it's so wide. Not a single person noticed, that I could tell, that's probably because we don't look each other in the eyes normally."

Hernandez's street photography style tends to single out silhouettes in busy city scenes. So far, his photos taken with Google Glass reflect this same theme.

In a comment on this image, Koci revealed that he prefers to take Google Glass images by touching the camera button on the device instead of using voice activation.

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Guardian says it all :"Even in San Francisco, a dude wearing Google Glass looks like a dick," a friend observed on Facebook last weekend. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/26/wearable-tech-intel-data -

While I was being solicited on the street of Boston today, a solicitor's companion was taking a picture of me. Well, she wanted me to see her taking a pic. Except that I do not want to be celebrated on Instagram and would not pause to check the offer.

But they can always try to get good looking gals taking the pics and make it worth my while to start a conversation.

About a million years ago, Popular Photography invited their readers to submit ideas for the camera of the future. One person sent in a drawing of a pair of glasses with a fold-down camera over one of the eyeglass lenses. It wasn't as sinister looking as Google Glasses but pretty much the same concept.

If someone would enter my room with it, I would kick it from his face and smash it on the ground (many of my friends would do the same) I hope they ban this spy-glass in the EU. Enough spying through he NSA and British Intelligence, no other stuff like that needed.

So it doesn't matter if its a photographer and not a spy? I can't think why any spy would use this when there's already much less obvious spy cams available. At least the person wearing these would have good evidence of your GBH. I get annoyed at some of the reactions I get using my camera in public, even when I'm not photographing people. Don't think everyone wearing these is out to get you.

I agree with you, in a less radical way... It's a very uncomfortable thought to have somebody standing opposite you, and you don't know whether they're taking sneaky pictures, videos or whatnot.There's enough pervs around taking sneaky pics - glass will make it so much easier for them.